With the release of the final part to the Coriolis Mercy of the Icons campaign, I am throwing this into my GMing mix for 2023. I started to run Coriolis with a group of close gaming buddies on Roll20, which in and of itself really dates it! (2019?)
The game floundered, despite the strength of the material. It feels like unfinished business, possibly that the sensible GM might just leave well alone. I want to make amends, as I feel the flounder must be due to my GMing, and I’d really like to guide the experience of the full cycle of this three act space opera epic.
I have been in awe of my mate Dom’s documentation for his 5e Curse of Strahd campaign. As we have rogressed he has provided sumptuous information and full session write-ups. Could I emulate? I may try.
Running this will also give me an opportunity to get some proper use out of Foundry VTT (on ), for which I am paying a regular sum for Forge Hosting and the managed LiveKit instance for solid AV. Foundry have the core rule book as premium content, providing:
- 462 Items (armor, gear, talents, weapons, injuries, ship features, ship modules, ship problems, etc)
- 126 Journal entries (full core rules and some example scenarios)
- 67 Actors (Beasts, djinni, NPCs, ships)
- 36 Rollable tables (critical injuries, failure tables, encounters, faction names, mission and system generators, travel events etc)
- 10 Scenes (maps, locations, and player handouts)
- Coriolis soundtrack playlist (7 tracks)
That’s an eye-watering array of assets to be used with the Coriolis character sheet system on Foundry. The first of the three campaign books is also available pre-loaded with lots of campaign assets, so I would get off to a flyer in terms of content. I have asked Free League if they plan to add the other two books into Foundry too. If not, well, I have some scraping and preparing to do. That’s OK.
I plan to restart from the beginning and just run through it. My original players would be welcome to sign up, though memories may jog at the first block of sessions.
This will be a major commitment. If the cadance was weekly I would give a first estimate of 50-60 sessions. I think I might be up for it.